BCS 302 COMPUTER ORGANIZATION AND ARCHITECTURE

Course Outcome ( CO) Bloom’s Knowledge Level (KL)

At the end of course , the student will be able to understand
co1 Study of the basic structure and operation of a digital computer system. K1, K2
Analysis of the design of arithmetic & logic unit and understanding of the fixed point and floating-
CO 2 K2, K4
point arithmetic operations.
CO 3 Implementation of control unit techniques and the concept of Pipelining
CO 4 Understanding the hierarchical memory system, cache memories and virtual memory
CO 5 Understanding the different ways of communicating with I/O devices and standard I/O interfaces K2,
DETAILED SYLLABUS 3-1-0
Unit Topic Proposed
Lecture
Introduction: Functional units of digital system and their interconnections, buses, bus architecture,
I
types of buses and bus arbitration. Register, bus and memory transfer. Processor organization,
general registers organization, stack organization and addressing modes.
Arithmetic and logic unit: Look ahead carries adders. Multiplication: Signed operand
II multiplication, Booths algorithm and array multiplier. Division and logic operations. Floating point 08
arithmetic operation, Arithmetic & logic unit design. IEEE Standard for Floating Point Numbers
Control Unit: Instruction types, formats, instruction cycles and sub cycles (fetch and execute etc),
III micro operations, execution of a complete instruction. Program Control, Reduced Instruction Set
08
Computer, Pipelining. Hardwire and micro programmed control: micro programme sequencing,
concept of horizontal and vertical microprogramming.
Memory: Basic concept and hierarchy, semiconductor RAM memories, 2D & 2 1/2D memory
IV organization. ROM memories. Cache memories: concept and design issues & performance, address 08
mapping and replacement Auxiliary memories: magnetic disk, magnetic tape and optical disks
Virtual memory: concept implementation.
Input / Output: Peripheral devices, VO interface, VO ports, Intemipts: intemipt hardware, types of
V interrupts and exceptions. Modes of Data Transfer: Programmed VO, interrupt initiated VO and 08
Direct Memory Access., FO channels and processors. Serial Communication: Synchronous &
asynchronous communication, standard communication interfaces.
Text books:
1. Computer System Architecture M. Mano
2. Carl Hamacher, Zvonko Vranesic, Safwat Zaky Computer Organization, McGraw-Hill, Fifth Edition, Reprint 2012
3. John P. Hayes, Computer Architecture and Organization, Tata McGraw Hill, Third Edition, 1998. Reference books
4. William Stallings, Computer Organization and Architecture-Designing for Performance, Pearson Education, Seventh
edition, 2006.
5. Behrooz Parahami, “Computer Architecture”, Oxford University Press, Eighth Impression, 2011.
6. David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessy, “Computer Architecture-A Quantitative Approach”, Elsevier, a division
of reed India Private Limited, Fifth edition, 2012
7. Structured Computer Organization, Tannenbaum(PHI)